Concert in Memory of JFK:Immortality in the Presidencyby Dennis Speed ``I was Twenty-three years old at the turn of the century. It was a time of brave expectations. Many believed that a new epoch was at handthat the dawn of the twentieth century would prove to be a turning point in the affairs of men. They cited recent scientific advances and predicted a future of great social progress. The era, they said, was approaching when poverty and hunger would at last disappear. In the way people make fervent resolutions at the start of a new year, the world seemed to be resolving at the start of a new century to undergo a change for the better. Who then foresaw that the coming decades would bring the unimaginable horrors of two world wars, concentration camps, and atomic bombs?'' Pablo Casals, `Joys And Sorrows'
Those capable of foresightand for civilization to survive, the American population must become so capablewill recognize the truth in Casals' observation. Yet, it is our duty to shape the future, and thus to know it. To paraphrase another slain U.S. President: We are now engaged in a 150 years war, testing whether any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, as is the United States, can long endure. Assassinations against American Presidents, have been the preferred criminal method of choice, for dealing with the problem of the American Cultural Exception. So it was with John Kennedy, his brother Robert, and Dr. Martin Luther King. To respond to the challenge of reproducing and increasing the power of foresight for civilization's survival in the short and long term is the unique mission of the Schiller Institute...

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Concert in Memory of JFK:
Immortality in the Presidencyby Dennis SpeedThe Schiller Institute Chorus, augmented by singers and an orchestra largely comprised of volunteers from the New England Conservatory of Music, presented Mozart's Requiem in its entirety to an audience of 1,200 at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, performed exactly 50 years to the day, of a 1964 Solemn High Requiem Mass specially requested by the Kennedy family.

Feature

A Reference to Today's Policy Committee Proceedings:
A Report on an Unusual Productionby Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. 'I have never become a 'Johnny One-Note' in either music, politics, or strategy, and almost certainly never will be, now, after more than ninety-one years of life, and have been never in much danger of drifting from that course, especially now. We shall now come to the relevance of that point for insight into the life, and also the matter of the recent clinically concluding death of Ariel Sharon, after his long, and bitterly complicated political life. . . .'

International

Will War-Avoidance Measures Rescue Geneva II Conference?Despite a last-minute reversal by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, by which he withdrew his invitation to Iran to participate in the upcoming Geneva II conference on Syria, a reliable U.S. diplomatic source expressed confidence that the talks will go forward, and Iran will ultimately take part in the process.

Economics

Trans-Atlantic Banks Face Explosion from EurozoneA series of events in January point to the threat of a crash of the huge zombie banks of the Eurozonebanks which are interconnected with the biggest U.S. banks in the overripe-for-ablowout trans-Atlantic financial system.

Science

Mining the Moon To Power the Earth With China's successful Chang'e-3 mission to the Moon, the long-hoped-for possibility of mining helium-3 on the lunar surface will become a reality, thereby advancing the prospects for development of thermonuclear fusion energy. EIR Technology Editor Marsha Freeman reports.

National

The Choice Is Clear:
It's Glass-Steagall Now, or Let the Bankers RuleWhile significant numbers of Congressmen and Senators have signed on to the Glass-Steagall bills in Congress, no hearings have been called on those bills. It's past time to follow FDR's mandate 'to bring private autocratic powers into their proper subordination to the public's government.'